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Built |
Opened 7 November 2009
Built features artists whose works explore our relationship with the built environment and how we experience space. Through a selection of sculptural and pictorial works from the State Art Collection Built shows how artists use and respond to built forms, and how these forms of architectural representation can suggest concepts of order and disorder, containment and collapse, and history and everyday reality. The exhibition features a recent major acquisition by Callum Morton whose confrontational slumped wall is contrasted by another very different wall, Narelle Jubelin's installation which is elegant, orderly and contained. Produced fifteen years apart, both installations deal very differently with the legacy of modernism, architecture and the life of objects, the material constructions from everyday human existence. Each installation animates both objects and space to present a compelling mix of personal narratives, past histories and utopian conceits.
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Callum Morton Monument #23: Slump 2009 polyurethane, epoxy resin, fibreglass, sand cement, timber, acrylic paint 260 × 960 × 270cm State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia Purchased through the Tomorrow Fund, Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation, 2009 © Callum Morton Installation view at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney | 26 February – 21 March 2009 photo: Ivan Buljan |
Joanna Lamb |
All of the works in Built variously use the representation of architectural form as a vehicle for creative enquiry into abstraction, sequencing, perception, repetition or socio-cultural narratives. Through the motif of architecture, these works show the formal structures or conceptual devices that underlie their visual descriptions of everyday reality and life observed. |
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Last Reviewed 3 March 2011 |
